This year, drought plagued Louisiana all summer ... processed crop to make a commodity,” Schudmak says. Sugar cane is moved onto trucks at the farm and transported to the mill.

Eddie Lewis III pulls up to his Youngsville farm in a large black Ford pickup truck ... sugar cane crop. He’s surrounded by sugar cane, and because of a prolonged drought in Louisiana, the ...

Instead, the company operated a fleet of heavy tractor-trailer trucks and had the migrants transport harvested sugar cane from other independent farms to a Louisiana Sugar Cane Cooperative mill ...

JEANERETTE, La. (KLFY) — There are only 11 sugar mills in Louisiana ... With around 800 trucks of cane stalk coming in daily during harvest season, the mill operates 24/7.

The sugar cane industry is a large one here in Louisiana and concerns are high. Kenneth Gravois, a sugar cane specialist with the LSU Agricultural Center, spoke to WWL’s Tommy Tucker about how ...

The import limits, guaranteed prices and loans that have kept 230 years of Louisiana tradition alive were enacted in 1981, when sugar cane farms and mills were on the verge of collapse because of ...